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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. SPIRITISTIC HYPOTHESES. 30.—TERMS DEFINED. WHAT do you understand by the word spiritistic? Different persons would reply with different answers to...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. SPIRITISTIC HYPOTHESES. 30.—TERMS DEFINED. WHAT do you understand by the word spiritistic? Different persons would reply with different answers to this question, and none, perhaps, would be in exact accord with what I shall herein use the word to mean. In order, then, that the ideas which I intend to convey shall be received in their integrity by every one of my readers, I will briefly give my definition and ask them to accept it as their own while reading this discussion; this may forestall criticism that is mere play upon words, and also prevent confusion of ideas. I herein use the word spiritistic not as a synonym of spiritualistic, nor as exclusively relating to the theories or phenomena of modern Spiritualism, but as expressing a broader, more comprehensive meaning. I mean by the terms Spiritistic Hypotheses of a Future Life all doctrines of a continued or renewed conscious life after death of the body which are based upon the general hypothesis that the material body actually dies and disintegrates and is never resurrected, but that an immaterial being or organism closely corresponding in parts and in whole to the material body it is supposed to have "inhabited," escapes and lives forever in a new state of existence. This embraces not only the beliefs of the Spiritualists, but a large and increasing number of the more intelligent and educated Christians and Deists. The major premise of this doctrine is that man in thislife is a dual (some say a triune) being, body and spirit, or soul; the minor premise is that, though the body dies, the spirit is essentially immortal, and though the body is useful to it for awhile, it can and does ultimately live independently of any material counterpart or body. Admit the truth of these premises and the conclusi...
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